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Normally, a president can't. The president is supposed to be checked by the legislative (Congress) and judicial (Supreme Court) branches of the government (president being executive).
The problem is, the other two are loyal to him so they don't check each other.
Most presidents have not had this power.
I think they are talking specifically about the power of pardon, which all other presidents certainly have had.
The government has basically been held together by a system of social norms and gentleman's agreements which Trump doesn't give two shits about. The one, singular potential good thing that might come out of this presidency is if all of these loopholes get closed as a result.
Assuming anyone who'd want to close them ever wins again.
Yeah but a lot of this I feel is do to states failing to do their jobs as well. 87% of prisoners are in state prisons, none of which the president can pardon. I assume all it would take is one state prosecutor from say Florida to look at information released thus far in the Epstein files, say this happened in Florida, and file charges against her. I assume the federal government would have to turn over all of the information they have in the Epstein case to the state prosecutor or they would be obstructing an investigation. Other evidence in the case could potentially spawn more criminal charges for others involved and they could sentence her to whatever they found necessary. Then Trump couldn't pardon her.
"Dual sovereignty" rules make it so you can be prosecuted by the state for the same thing you have been prosecuted by the federal government.